Top 10 applications of iPhone
June 29th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
I was referring to LifeHacker Top 10 iPhone applications blog. Good info, but did not notice Delicious as one of them.
Technorati Tags: iPhone_Delicious, Delicious, iPhone_application
Archive for June, 2007
iPhone will be ActiveSynch”able”: See this Proof of Picture
June 29th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
The below picture shows iPhone’s settings to get hooked with Microsoft Exchange. More iPhone pictures are found here.
Earlier, there were many corporates who sent out bulletin to its employees advising that company’s messaging system will not support iPhone and hence not to buy it. These companies were not very sure about its Microsoft Exchange Support and also did not want to bring more complexity into their existing Mobile Messaging environment where blackberry, Windows mobile and others are already in place.
I also heard from intermedia.net that they will be the first to offer Exchange email in iPhone. Read more details here on Intermedia.net’s plan.
Will iPhone capture the already congested Wireless Email Direct Push market?
Technorati Tags: iPhone_Exchange, iPhone_Activesync, iPhone, iPhone_directpush, iPhone_Microsoft
Tech-Ed 2007 SEA: Top 3 highlights of the event
June 27th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
I had written an in depth blog about Tech-Ed 2007 SEA event. You can read it here. In nutshell the following are the top 3 highlights of the event.
- More than 120 breakout sessions in your preferred track
This year’s event will feature even more speakers from Microsoft Corporation allowing you to hear about your favorite technologies from the sources who develop them. Create a personal learning program from 6 technical tracks with more than 120 breakout sessions.
- Hands-on experiences with experts.
Tech•Ed offers opportunities to evaluate products both from Microsoft and from 250 of our most important industry partners. Additionally, based on attendee feedback from last year, we will be more than doubling the number of Instructor Led Lab sessions as well as introducing a whole host of new self-paced Hands On Lab content.
- Networking with your peers, microsofties, vendors Walking around Tech•Ed are more than 2,000 minds just like yours. 2,000 IT pros and developers to meet. 2,000 opinions to consider. Add to the mix Microsoft product team members and industry gurus and you will immediately see why a Tech•Ed crowd is like no other.
Technorati Tags: Tech_ed, Teched_SEA, Teched_2007
Tech-Ed 2007 SEA: Tracks are available, no more secrets.
June 25th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
Here is the Messaging track descriptions for Tech-Ed SEA 2007. Visit Ed’s blog for other track descriptions. As expected, there will be more to talk about Exchange 2007, MOSS 2007 & OCS2007
OFFICE SYSTEM & MESSAGING TRACK
The Office system track is packed full of deep technical content for IT Professionals and developers including Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 with sessions covering security, deployment, management, customization and administration. As a developer you will learn about new technologies to create “Office Business Applications” on top of the 2007 Office system platform (server & client technologies) including Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Second Edition (VSTO 2005 SE)
Unified Communications solutions reduce the complexities of modern communications into a seamless experience by combining e-mail, instant messaging, voice, and video into a single, intuitive system. Enable businesses to replace conflicting systems with a single, unified communications platform that leverages their existing data and telecommunications infrastructure. Also in this track you’ll discover and learn about those solutions like Microsoft’s messaging and mobility platform, Unified Messaging, and mobility scenarios capabilities of Exchange Server 2007, new voice (telephony) and video conference capabilities, advanced presence and more!
Track Technologies
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Project Server 2007, VSTO SE, Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for SharePoint, Open XML File Formats, Exchange Server 2003 / 2007, Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging, Live Communications Server 2005 / Office Communications Server 2007, Outlook 2007, Outlook Web Access, Office Communicator 2007, Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Exchange Hosted Services.
Technorati Tags: tech-ed sea 2007, tech-ed SEA, tech-ed track
Hotmail is now “Outlooked”: What’s new with Microsoft Office Outlook Connector
June 24th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
Its always time consuming to check multiple mails using multiple interface. In gmail, I was able to consolidate most of my mails to one interface and using send as feature, I literally did not use other email application interface to send/receive. So cool!
Now with Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts for free! Here is the download link.
Outlook Connector Beta enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:
- Read and send your Office Live Mail or Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
- You can manage your Live Mail Contacts.
- Able to use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
- You can manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
What is not free are the following additional features:
- Manage, share, and synchronize your Windows Live Calendar in Outlook.
- Access your Tasks and Notes.
I just now downloaded and installed it within my Outlook 2007. Locate the Outlook Connector from the Menu, and simply add your Windows Live Account.
In a nutshell, If you’re already using Outlook, especially with multiple e-mail accounts, the Outlook Connector is a great way to manage your accounts together with powerful tools.
Technorati Tags: hotmail, outlook_connector
Tech-Ed 2007 SEA: Special Deals for MVPs & Community Members
June 23rd, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
This is what I heard from Microsoft circle. Please spread the word out.TechEd discounted price for any MVP at 799 RM. If you’re selected for .NET University training and re-delivery, the price is then discounted to 599 RM.Read on to know more about .NET University.
What is .NET University http://www.dotnet-u.com/
The .NET University is an Instructor Led Lab (ILL) that gives TechEd SEA delegates a good technical overview of what is new in .NET 3.0. Through the lecture and lab sessions, the delegates will be able to gain knowledge of .NET 3.0, which includes WPF, WCF, WF and Cardspace. Besides that, selected delegates will get a chance to re-deliver the topics after attending any of the .NET University sessions.
How does it work
The ultimate objective of .NET University is to “Train The Trainer”. i.e. attendees should leave the sessions equipped with the ability to redeliver the presentations to their own audiences, e.g. at technical events, to user and special interest groups, internal company audiences and other interested parties. The attendees should leave the sessions equipped with .NET 3.0 knowledge and they are able to redeliver the presentations to their own audience at technical events, such as the special interest groups, internal company audiences and other interested parties. Experts from the US (Doug Turnure, Todd Fine and Mark Dunn) will conduct the sessions on the first day. On subsequent days, the sessions will be re-delivered by the volunteers amongst the delegates who attended the 1st day session. Doug, Todd and Mark will be available throughout the duration of the conference to facilitate and assist those who are in the learning environment to ensure their success. Of course, anyone can attend the sessions in order to learn and need not necessarily be a presenter on subsequent days, but we do encourage this.
Who should participate
.NET University is designed for anyone who is interested to learn .NET 3.0 technologies. We will
definitely be more than happy to see as many of our MVPs, community or academic influencers to participate in the .NET University, especially on the first day, which is a great opportunity to be trained by our internal .NET experts. Apart from that, we would also like to encourage the MVPs and influencers to re-deliver the sessions to TechEd delegates.
if you want to know more about this visit Microsoft Tech-Ed site here
Tech-Ed SEA 2007: Geek out into the SEA, the Tech-Ed way
June 21st, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
Tech-Ed is the event of assorted geeks where you see enthusiasm, networking of Microsoft technologies, with Microsofties, IT pros, developers, vendors etc. Upcoming Tech-Ed for South East Asia will be held at Kula Lumpur Convention Center from 10-13 September, 2007. This is the place where “Microsofties” deep dive into the “SEA” & empower themselves with emerging Microsoft Technologies.
I will be off to make my mark at Tech-Ed 2007 SEA at KL, Malaysia, and spend valuable time to learn from the experts, share my knowledge with some of you guys, hands-on at the lab with latest & greatest in Microsoft especially Exchange 2007, OCS 2007 & MOSS 2007.
So why wait? If you are not registered yet, here is the link and below shown is current promotion as I write this blog post now. To answer most of your Tech-Ed related questions, visit here and Ed Quek scribble exclusively about Tech-Ed 2007 SEA event, so don’t forget to visit his blog.
Tech-Ed brings benefits in many ways to many people. I still remember, I started my site MessagingTalk.org and got the inspiration to get my MVP after attending Tech-Ed 2005 at Singapore. Every Tech-Ed is a win-win event for me personally, as I get more ideas from the experts around and I make connections with Technologists, entrepreneurs, IT pros and developers. If you can’t make it for Tech-Ed 2007 SEA, there are other places in Asia where you can make your mark. Here is Tech-Ed worldwide site.
What actually you can expect from Tech-Ed 2007 SEA?
2007 is “Year of release” for Microsoft and MS community started discussing about chain of new products and technologies. Every year, Tech-Ed event is getting to be huge and mining the precious of gold among the large number of sessions is challenge. In messaging and collaboration perspective, I would like to guide you on what to look for during Tech-Ed 2007 SEA.
I believe Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 will be a one of the worth sessions, as OCS 2007 gets closer to release. You may probably hear about “Quality of Experience” (QOE), as Microsoft is projecting this as a better metric for Voice/video quality over traditional “Quality of Service” (QoS). Obviously, Microsoft will be keen on showcasing some of the cool VoIP communications devices including its own like Round Table, Tanjay etc.
Hmm…This could be a spark. You will also be eager to see what vendors could be offering on Exchange 2007. As you aware, the new High Availability & disaster recovery options built into Exchange 2007 might have caused some upheaval in the vendors offering.
Lookout for some of the cool hands-on labs focused on Exchange 2007. Some of the previous TechEd had topics like “Deploying Exchange Activesync on Exchange 2007 (with certificate-based authentication), Using Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner to size Exchange 2007 deployments, some labs on Transitioning Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, Setting up Cluster Continuous Replication & Local Continuous Replication.
It’s Free & Easy, just wander around the event. Who knows, we may get a chance to see each other and say Hi.
Below is couple of snaps taken during last year Tech-Ed (Source: Microsoft)
YUMMY!!!
Microsofties Networks…!!
Last thing you would rather do after TechEd is hang-in and take a tour to see Malaysia
J
-Shaji
HostingCon2007: Tradeshow for the Exchange Hosted companies.
June 16th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
Hosted Exchange Partners, Microsoft & related Professionals in the hosted services industry are gearing up to meet up at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois, for HostingCon 2007, which has been scheduled from July 23-25, 2007. HostingCon 2007 tradeshow is focused on the hosted services industry. Read more..
Post your Exchange Administrator position
June 16th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
We have added Job coin Widget in MessagingTalk.org. Currently this is placed along with Articles under Author profile box as below.
How does this work?
Click the button above to “post a job”. The cost is $99 and you can pay instantly with your credit card. As soon as your payment is processed, jobcoin’s system analyzes your job title and the text of your job description and begins placing it on appropriate sites. So for messaging related jobs, our site will be one of the targeted. Hope this helps.
Submit your product in MessagingTalk.org’s Product DB section
June 15th, 2007 by ShajiFiroz
In MessagingTalk.org, we have recently added Product DB section. This category is targeted for vendors who develop and sell solutions for MS Exchange customers in particular, e.g. Anti-Spam, High Availability, outlook plug-in, mobility & wireless etc.. Below are more detailed category:
Administration
Anti Spam
Anti Virus for E-mail
Calendar Tools
CRM Softwares
Disclaimers
Email Archive & Storage
Fax Connectors
Hosted Exchange
Migration
Mobility & Wireless
Outlook Addons
OWA Addons
POP3 Downloaders
PST Management
Reporting
Security & Encryption
SMS & Paging
Unified Messaging
Backup & Recovery
We encourage you to limit the product summary to 200 words, you can also make use of tagging to categorize it better. Include the pricing if possible, otherwise just mention it as “Please call for a sales quote” and then include your contact as well. Below is a sample product db submission by Avepoint for its Public Folder Migrator product
Do submit your product under Product DB section. If the product is relevant to MessagingTalk’s visitors, we will accept the submission for a subscription fee of USD 100/- for the period of one year.
